O imaginário na Gazeta do Povo sobre os atingidos pela Usina Baixo Iguaçu

Abstract

In this dissertation, we proposed to investigate the meanings mobilized by Gazeta do Povo, between 2013 and 2016, about those affected by Usina Baixo Iguaçu. In order to do so, based on the assumptions of Materialist Discourse Analysis, we carried out a survey of the news that were broadcast (online) by Gazeta do Povo about Usina Baixo Iguaçu and we weaved the cut of the analytical corpus through the analysis of the news that mobilized the strikes/protests of those affected by the hydroelectric plant. Our corpus consists of four news items, which contain the following headlines: “Farmers occupy a plant construction site in the southwest of PR”; “Residents of the region that will be flooded by the Baixo Iguaçu plant perform acts in Curitiba”; “Protest suspends works and plant threatens to demobilize 2,800 employees in Paraná”; and “The plant lays off a thousand employees and the government gives until Friday to unlock access”. To understand how Gazeta do Povo meant those affected in the process of building the Baixo Iguaçu plant, we rely mainly on the writings of Pêcheux (2014a; 2014b; 2015a; 2015), Orlandi (2008; 2015), Mariani (1988; 1996; 1998) and Indursky (1992; 2003; 2011; 2015; 2021). In the analysis, the denominations, the imaginary formations and the silences that were perpetuated in the speech of the Gazeta do Povo about those affected by the Baixo Iguaçu plant were described and analyzed. Throughout the analysis process, we considered the dynamics of interference of specific aspects of journalistic practice, which surround the effects of truth, objectivity and neutrality. This study allowed us to verify that the Gazeta do Povo, when talking about those affected, is affiliated with the discursive formation of capital, projecting the image of the affected person as someone who is on the margins, who causes inconvenience, who is unemployed, who is an offender. In addition, our analyzes showed the silence of Gazeta do Povo in relation to the fundamental property right of those affected, with their prior and fair compensation for expropriation